Defending joy like a trench. Thus begins Benedetti, who is not the former powerhouse Silvano but Mario, the great Uruguayan poet. There, in the land of heavenly futbol, 777 Partners has no teams under control. But in the nearby green-gold giant, Vasco, at the center of disputes and tribulations. One of the clubs in the galaxy of the Miami-based holding company, together with Genoa and four others around the world, in addition to the participation in Sevilla in the beginning and finally the attempt at the sunset for Everton (exclusivity for the purchase expired at 5am on Saturday, London time). And it is from Rio that the famous phrase with which the physicist Edward Lorents described the butterfly effect in 1972 comes from: «Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil cause a hurricane in Texas?». Or rather, here: in Genoa? The Griffin experiences a moment of splendid renaissance, of happy turning point. Of joy. To be protected. To be defended, in fact, like a trench.
Sun in Pegli. Place and club where the 777 operated, after the initial difficulties, gave excellent results: recovery in Serie A, wonderful championship for Gila&C., overflowing enthusiasm from the fans. What now needs to be protected, in the face of the clouds that can be seen in the distance: troubles of a different order for Vasco, Everton, Standard Liège. And the process of restructuring the accounts of the rossoblù club must also be preserved which – despite a debt situation still recognized as deficient by the management, also burdened by the previous burden, but with a positive trend – wants to get closer to “sustainability” as soon as possible, the word of CEO Blazquez who is managing the company very well, together with president Zangrillo and colleagues on site. Inserted, however, in a Football Group, in a glocal structure. Treccani definition: «Attitude, policy, vision, which focuses simultaneously on the global or planetary dimension and on the local one.” With interdependence. And from here there is the emergence of doubts or fears linked to the economic and legal problems that the 777s are experiencing in other football cities and in non-football sectors. And it is here that the need for clarity arises, on what is happening elsewhere and on what could possibly happen (or not) under the rossoblù sky, including the hypothesis raised for example in Rio of the sale of the sports portfolio or of scenarios at Oaktree-Zhang for Inter.
Answers directly from top figures of the holding, due to the fact that the critical issues are elsewhere at the moment; to add and strengthen the reassuring and appreciated words of Blazquez, very present for the Griffin. Given the gathering of clouds at other latitudes, they should be Wander and equal to explain: global summits that so far have always denied our questions. Maybe it’s because finance, at least for non-experts, brings with it a certain ethereality, but now, in Genoa, it is legitimate and necessary to ask for palpable reassurances. In defense, like a trench, of this Genoa joy.
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